Take a Closer Look...Alpine/Subalpine Life Zone

Alpine and subalpine tundra is the low-growing vegetation found in the “land above the trees.” At this high elevation, the climate is harsh with searing winds, intense sunlight and frigid temperatures that limit the growing season. In spite of these ...

Carlos Ygnacio Velasco House

This house dating from the 1870s was purchased by Carlos and Beatriz Velasco in 1878. In the same year, Velasco began publication of the newspaper "El Fronterizo," which continued until his death in 1914. This building was the office and ...

Take a Closer Look...Montane Life Zone

When artists and photographers portray Colorado’s mountainous beauty, they usually capture the classic views of evergreen forests, stands of quaking aspens, and meadows of brilliant wildflowers. The montane area above 8,000 feet contains just such views. Ponderosa pines tower over ...

Founders of Benicia

1847

Gen. Mariano G. Vallejo

Who was Commandante of Northern

California for over 10 years.

Thomas O. Larkin

U.S. Consul in California 1844-1846.

Robert Semple

Presiding Officer of the First Constitutional

Convention of California and Co-founder

with Rev. Walter Colton of California’s

First Newspaper the “Californian.”

Francisca Benicia Vallejo

Wife of Gen. ...

Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District

This property

Has been listed in the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

2005

Painted Desert

Community Complex

Historic District

Marker can be reached from Interstate 40.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Take a Closer Look...Foothills Life Zone

The foothills of Colorado’s eastern slope form the dramatic meeting place of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains. In this transition area between the prairie and the mountains, grasslands intermix with scrublands of mountain mahogany and scrub oak. These ...

Edward Nye Fish House

E.N. Fish came to Arizona as an enterprising merchant in 1865. Three years later he built this adobe house which served as the family residence for the next half century. Fish developed many successful businesses and his wife Maria was ...

The Mortar Battery

Named Battery Meigs, these two pits contained eight large 12-inch mortars. Each huge mortar was capable of hurling a 700-pound projectile in a high arc. The simultaneous firing of all eight would insure a clustered group of shells falling on ...

Textile Workers Monument

Not until each loom is silent

And the shuttles cease to fly

Will God unroll the pattern

And explain the reason why...

The dark threads are as needful

In the weaver's skillful hand,

As the threads of gold and silver...

For the pattern which he planned.

In dedication ...

The Old Fort

A group of colonists called by Brigham Young, under the leadership of William C. Allen settled here March 24, 1876. They erected a fort of cottonwood logs and mud on this site. It was first known as Allen's Camp. In ...